
Senior Telemetry Engineer
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Senior (7+ years preferred)Role Overview:We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Telemetry Engineer to lead the design and implementation of telemetry pipelines across diverse environments including microservices, VM-based applications, cloud-native platforms, and on-premise systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in OpenTelemetry architecture and implementation, and a strong background in observability, distributed systems, and performance monitoring.Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement end-to-end telemetry pipelines for applications deployed across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
- Lead the installation, configuration, and optimization of OpenTelemetry components including SDKs, Collector, and exporters.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to define telemetry standards and integrate observability into CI/CD workflows.
- Design scalable and resilient data collection strategies for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Develop and maintain instrumentation libraries for microservices and legacy applications.
- Ensure telemetry data is efficiently routed to observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Conduct performance tuning and troubleshooting of telemetry pipelines.
- Provide architectural guidance and best practices for telemetry adoption across teams.
- Stay current with OpenTelemetry releases and contribute to internal tooling and automation.
- Proven experience in setting up telemetry pipelines from scratch across multiple environments.
- Strong hands-on expertise with OpenTelemetry (Collector, SDKs, OTLP protocol).
- Deep understanding of distributed tracing, metrics collection, and log aggregation.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Zipkin, Datadog, etc.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Node.js) for instrumentation.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and VM/on-prem infrastructure.
- Knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes), service meshes (Istio), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Experience contributing to or working with the OpenTelemetry community.
- Certifications in cloud technologies or observability tools.
- Experience in regulated or enterprise-scale environments.